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Maxwell equations (M-eqs) are the essence of electromagnetic theory, consisting of a set of Gauss laws for electricity and magnetism, Ampére law and Faraday law . They have played one of the main roles in the tremendous development of physics in the last century. There are two sets of M-eqs, i.e., microscopic and macroscopic M-eqs. Historically, the latter appeared first and the former was derived from the latter according to the particle picture of matter. The former is used as one of the basic set of equations to construct quantum electrodynamics (QED) . The agreement between the prediction of QED and related experiment is quite high in accuracy, which guarantees the reliability of its constituent theories, quantum mechanics, relativity, and microscopic M-eqs.
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At the final stage of writing this book, the author was suggested to examine the relevant documents of IUPAP and IUPAC on this subjects. In the IUPAC-2007 document [Quantities, Units and Symbols in Physical Chemistry, 3-rd Edition, IUPAC 2007 RSC Publishing], we find \(\chi = \upmu_{r} - 1\) in the table of Sect. 2.3, which is also given in the IUPAP-1987 document [Table 12 of Physica, 146A (1987) 1–67]. This corresponds to \(\chi_{\textrm m} =\upmu/\upmu_{0} - 1\) according to the notations of this book (in SI units) . Since the IUPAP document has not been revised since 1987, it is the valid recommendation today by IUPAP and IUPAC to use the definition of χ m as \({M} = \chi_{\textrm m}{H}\). In addition to this, there is no description in these documents about the chiral susceptibility (or admittance). From the viewpoint of the present author, these documents need to be revised by taking the microscopic consideration of susceptibility into account.
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Cho, K. (2010). Introduction. In: Reconstruction of Macroscopic Maxwell Equations. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12791-5_1
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